Re: Field encryption

Richard,

We have implemented an encryption algorithm (proprietary) in
4GL with which we do the very thing you are asking about.

Contact me off-list if you are interested in the technology.

Joe

At 04:32 PM 11/23/2005, Richard Turner wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone know of a function/routine to encrypt data in 
>BDL?  Preferably, I'd like to make use of one of the more popular 
>encryption standards in use today.
>
>Basically, I want to let the user key in a text value on a screen form 
>then, when they save the record, I want to take the entered data and run 
>it through an encryption algorithm.  The encrypted data would be what we 
>store in the database.  When the user views this record at a later date, 
>we need to do the opposite, take the encrypted value from the database, 
>decrypt it, then display the decrypted value on the screen.
>
>Thanks for the info,
>
>Richard

Joe Lewinski
ICANON Associates, Inc.
Phone: 215.822.5519 Fax: 215.822.5523